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Dionne Warwick (born December 12, 1940 as Marie Dionne Warrick) is an American singer best known for her operate sustaining Hal David and Burt Bacharach as songwriters. Her parents were Mansel Warrick & Lee Drinkard. She began singing gospel with her family, & began her office solo career when graduating from either a University of Hartford. Her 1st solo individual was 1963's "Don't Make Me Over"; her title was misspelled on the credits, & she before long began using the newly spelling ("Warwick"). a song was a moderate hit, however the watch-ups were stillborn until 1964's "Anyone Who Had a Heart". This was followed by "Walk on By", a major hit that launched her career into the stratosphere.
Warwick weathered a British Invasion better than most U.s. creative person, & she freed just two or three minor hits in the UK during the late 1960s, most notably 1966's "Message to Michael". The 1967 LP called Here Where There Is Love became a large hit, when did her lone "I Say a Little Prayer," which is now super noted for existence featured in the recent pic, ''My Best Friend's Wedding''. Her next large hit was unusual therein was non written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David; "(Theme From) Valley of the Dolls" wwhen a smash profits, as was a watch-higher, "Do You Know the Way to San José?". Extra hits & 2 or three Grammies followed in the previous two years of the Sixties. Her career slowed greatly in the 1970s, with there are no large hits until 1974's "Then Came You" with the Spinners. In the early Seventy's at the advice of a numerologist, each Dionne & her sister DeeDee added an 'e' to the prevent of Warwicke (late dropped). The 5-season hiatus ensued, ending by owning "I'll Never Love This Way Again", produced by Barry Manilow. A concomitant album, Dionne, was her first to last platinum.
Warwick's next hit was her 1982 full-length collaboration with the Bee Gees, Heartbreaker. Within 1986, Warwick led the Western Foundation for Helps Search (AmFAR) profit lone "That's What Friends Are For" with Gladys Knight, Elton John and Stevie Wonder; it was a number one hit, and garnered Warwick's fifth Grammy.
Her career took the major downswing in the 1990s, with simply two or three moderate-selling albums freed & there is no major singles. In the time period of this period, she was perchance better known for hosting infomercials for the Psychic Friends Network, a 900 number psychic service.
Within 2002, Warwick was arrested at Miami International Airport for possession of marijuana. Miami-Dade Police officers reported finding Xi reefer in the lip rouge container. Drug charges were dropped after she agreed to complete the drug coarse of action program, donate $250 to charity, & produce an anti-drug public service announcement directed at youth[http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13055.shtml].
Warwick's sister Dee Dee Warwick also had the successful cantabile career, scoring the Top Xx R&B hit in the form of "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" in 1967. One of Warwick's cousin-german is Whitney Houston. Dionne Warwick & Olivia Newton John were singer Karen Carpenter's best friends (The Carpenters)
Albums
1963 Presenting Dionne Warwick
1964 Anyone Who Had a Heart
1964 Make Way for Dionne Warwick
1965 The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick
1966 Here I Am
1966 Dionne Warwick in Paris
1967 Here, Where There Is Love
1967 Dionne Warwick Onstage and in the Movies
1967 The Windows of the World
1968 Dionne in the Valley of the Dolls
1968 Magic of Believing
1968 Promises Promises
1969 Soulful
1969 ''Dionne Warwick's Greatest Motion Picture Hits
1970 I'll Never Fall in Love Again
1970 Very Dionne
1971 The Dionne Warwick Story: Live
1972 Dionne
1972 From Within
1973 Just Being Myself
1975 Then Came You
1975 Track of the Cat
1977 A Man and a Woman (w/ Isaac Hayes)
1977 Only Love Can Break a Heart
1977 Love at First Sight
1979 Dionne
1980 No Night So Long
1981 Hot! Live and Otherwise
1982 Friends in Love
1982 Heartbreaker
1985 Finder of Lost Loves
1985 Friends
1985 Without Your Love
1987 Reservations for Two
1989 Dionne Warwick Sings Cole Porter
1993 Friends Can Be Lovers
1995 Aquarela Do Brazil
1998 Dionne Sings Dionne
2000 Dionne Sings Dionne Vol. 2
2004 My Favorite Time of the Year
Filmography
Slaves (1969)
The Day the Music Died (1977)
Rent-a-Cop (1988)
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) (famously features her hit "I Say a Little Prayer")
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family''' (2002) (documentary)
Reference
Ayres, Sabra: [http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13055.shtml Dionne Warwick's Charges Dropped in Plea Bargain], Associated Click, June Five, 2002.
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